My family are **** Yankees, moved down here from upstate NY when I was an infant. So I grew up in the south, with Yankee parents, though many southerners believe where I grew up (RTP area of NC) isn't really the south.
When I visit my relatives in upstate NY (Finger Lakes area) I remember how much rural New York is culturally like the South. Just take away the confederate flags, replace the ATVs with snowmobiles, change the accents, replace the hunting clubs with VFW halls, and you're good to go. So I doubt an upstate New Yorker would have ANY trouble adapting to the south.
I work for one of those Yankee-based companies that has an outpost in NC and I remember many years ago a bunch of New Yorkers transferred down. One of them became my office mate and I remember when she got her first property tax bill she asked me "are property taxes billed quarterly down here?". No, it's annual. It's just that the bill you got is so much less than what you were used to paying in NY. You'll get used to it (also gives me some perspective on my tax bills
